In Aperture, when I go to Aperture >> Preferences the only window that appears is this one:
As a result, I cannot fix an External Editor or do anything else.
Does anyone know what to do to fix this please?
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
Try the following - as a test: Launch Aperture from a different user account, for example the Guest account. If you see the correct preferences panel there, go back to your regulare user account and remove the Aperture preferences file com.apple.Aperture.plist from the Preferences folder in your user library.
How to remove the Aperture's user preferences from the User Library as described here:
Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics
Note:
Your User Library is hidden by default in 10.7.5 - to open it in a Finder window use the "Go" menu from the Finder's main menu bar.
Then try to launch Aperture again.
But deleting the "Preferences" file will cause Aperture to forget the preferences settings. Be prepared to have to reset all options you set using the Aperture Preferences panel.
Regards
Léonie
The file that your refer to is not in the Library folder. The closest match is:
com.apple.RegAperture.plist
Should I delete that file?
The closest match is:
com.apple.RegAperture.plist
Should I delete that file?
Then you are looking in the System library /Library/Preferences and not in your hidden User Library ~/Library/Preferences.
Remember, the User Library is hidden from the user by default. You cannot open it from the Finder unless you change the file attributes from the Terminal.
So use the Finder's "Go" menu to reveal the hidden user library, as I described above:
I thought so but I do not have a drop down menu in that window regardless of the time I hold down the option key.
That is the Go > Go to Folder window that I get
Oops, I meant "Finder > Go! 😊 😊
It should look like thisis:
Aperture preferences error
